| 单词 | laugh |
| 释义 | laugh (once / 25 pages) vn To let out a chuckle or giggle is to laugh: people laugh when something is funny. To chortle, cackle, guffaw, or titter is to laugh. The job of a comedian is to make people laugh. Often people laugh at things that aren't supposed to be funny, and people also laugh to be polite. If something is silly, you can say "That's a laugh!" If you had fun at a party, you can say "Thanks for the laughs." Everybody's laugh sounds a little different. It would be a shame if your laugh sounded like Elmer Fudd. WORD FAMILYlaugh: laughable, laughed, laugher, laughing, laughs+/laughable: laughably/laugher: laughers/laughing: laughingest, laughingly USAGE EXAMPLESAround us a ballroom of people were laughing and eating and dancing. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) The guy next to me laughed, dropping his book on to the floor. Salon(Jan 02, 2017) “I’m in the books for something,” Young said with a laugh. Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1v produce laughter Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper express joy, express mirth cry, weep shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain crybring into a particular state by crying bray laugh loudly and harshly bellylaughlaugh a deep, hearty laugh howl, roarlaugh unrestrainedly and heartily snicker, sniggerlaugh quietly giggle, titterlaugh nervously break up, crack uplaugh unrestrainedly cackleemit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing guffaw, laugh loudlylaugh boisterously chortle, chuckle, laugh softlylaugh quietly or with restraint convulsebe overcome with laughter cachinnatelaugh loudly and in an unrestrained way express emotion, express feelings give verbal or other expression to one's feelings 2n the sound of laughing Syn|Hypo|Hyper laughter cachinnation loud convulsive laughter cacklea loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle chortle, chucklea soft partly suppressed laugh gigglea foolish or nervous laugh belly laugh, guffawa burst of deep loud hearty laughter ha-ha, haw-haw, hee-haw, horselaugha loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing snicker, snigger, snorta disrespectful laugh tittera nervous restrained laugh utterance, vocalization the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication 3n a facial expression characteristic of a person laughing his face wrinkled in a silent laugh of derision Hyper facial expression, facial gesture a gesture executed with the facial muscles 4n a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter thanks for the laugh Syn|Hypo|Hyper gag, jape, jest, joke belly laugh, howler, riot, scream, sidesplitter, thigh-slapper, wow a joke that seems extremely funny blue joke, blue story, dirty joke, dirty storyan indelicate joke ethnic jokea joke at the expense of some ethnic group funny, funny remark, funny story, good storyan account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line) in-jokea joke that is appreciated only by members of some particular group of people one-linera one-line joke shaggy dog storya long rambling joke whose humor derives from its pointlessness sick jokea joke in bad taste sight gag, visual jokea joke whose effect is achieved by visual means rather than by speech (as in a movie) humor, humour, wit, witticism, wittiness a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter |
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